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Sarcoglottis

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Sarcoglottis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is widespread across much of Latin America from Mexico to Argentina, with one species extending northward into Trinidad and the Windward Islands.

Species

Schaffner’s Fleshy Orchid

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyOrchidaceae
Native toArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador
Observations418
Observations recorded3,957

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
241
With media
97
Family
Orchidaceae
Collections
INECOL, UJAT, IBUNAM, JBB, GH, AMES
Recorded in
Mexico, Brasil, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • See also
  • References
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Sarcoglottis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is widespread across much of Latin America from Mexico to Argentina, with one species extending northward into Trinidad and the Windward Islands.

==Species== , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: Sarcoglottis acaulis (Sm.) Schltr. – from Grenada and Trinidad to Bolivia Sarcoglottis acutata (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Garay – Minas Gerais Sarcoglottis alexandri Schltr. ex Mansf. – São Paulo, Paraná Sarcoglottis amazonica Pabst – Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana Sarcoglottis assurgens (Rchb.f.) Schltr . – Chiapas, Oaxaca, Campeche, Yucatán, Guatemala Sarcoglottis biflora (Vell.) Schltr. – Brazil Sarcoglottis calcicola Bogarín & Pupulin Sarcoglottis catharinensis Mancinelli & E.C.Smidt Sarcoglottis cerina (Lindl.) P.N.Don in J.Donn – Oaxaca, Veracruz, Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador Sarcoglottis curvisepala Szlach. & Rutk. – Bahia, Minas Gerais Sarcoglottis degranvillei Szlach. & Veyret – French Guiana Sarcoglottis depinctrix Christenson & Toscano – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro Sarcoglottis fasciculata (Vell.) Schltr. – Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay Sarcoglottis glaucescens Schltr. – Rio Grande do Sul Sarcoglottis gonzalezii L.C.Menezes – Minas Gerais Sarcoglottis grandiflora (Hook.) Klotzsch – widespread across much of South America Sarcoglottis heringeri Pabst – Brasília Sarcoglottis herzogii Schltr. – Bolivia Sarcoglottis homalogastra (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr. – Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina Sarcoglottis hunteriana Schltr. Sarcoglottis itararensis (Kraenzl.) Hoehne – Paraná Sarcoglottis juergensii Schltr. – Minas Gerais Sarcoglottis labiosa Sambin & Aucourd Sarcoglottis lehmannii Garay – Colombia Sarcoglottis lobata (Lindl.) P.N.Don in J.Donn – Hidalgo Sarcoglottis maasorum Pabst Sarcoglottis magdalenensis (Brade & Pabst) Pabst – Brazil, Argentina Sarcoglottis maroaensis G.A.Romero & Carnevali – Venezuela Sarcoglottis matogrossensis Engels & E.C.Smidt Sarcoglottis metallica (Rolfe) Schltr. – Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana Sarcoglottis micrantha Christenson – Peru Sarcoglottis neglecta Christenson – Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica Sarcoglottis neillii Salazar & Tobar Sarcoglottis pauciflora (Kuntze) Schltr. – central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras Sarcoglottis portillae Christenson – Ecuador Sarcoglottis powellii Schltr. Sarcoglottis pseudovillosa Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. – Paraguay Sarcoglottis retorta Sambin & Aucourd Sarcoglottis riocontensis E.C.Smidt & Toscano – Bahia Sarcoglottis rosulata (Lindl.) P.N.Don in J.Donn – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Oaxaca Sarcoglottis sceptrodes (Rchb.f.) Schltr – from central Mexico south to Panama Sarcoglottis schaffneri (Rchb.f.) Ames in J.D.Smith – from central Mexico south to Honduras Sarcoglottis schwackei (Cogn.) Schltr. – Brazil Sarcoglottis scintillans (E.W.Greenw.) Salazar & Soto Arenas – Oaxaca Sarcoglottis smithii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. – Nicaragua, Costa Rica Sarcoglottis stergiosii Carnevali & I.Ramírez – Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana Sarcoglottis tirolensis Burns–Bal. & Merc.S.Foster – Paraguay Sarcoglottis turkeliae Christenson – Ecuador Sarcoglottis uliginosa Barb.Rodr. – Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay Sarcoglottis umbrosa (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. – Brazil Sarcoglottis ventricosa (Vell.) Hoehne – Brazil, Argentina Sarcoglottis veyretiae Szlach. – Rio de Janeiro Sarcoglottis villosa (Poepp. & Endl.) Schltr. – Brazil, Peru Sarcoglottis viscosa Szlach. & Rutk. – Brazil Sarcoglottis woodsonii (L.O.Williams) Garay – Panama

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